Wearing clothes that old people may well have died in, and a bowl-cut the Beatles would be proud of, Daughter tells tales of ghosts, drowning lovers and setting fire to her insides for fun. Daughter’s haunting voice and delicate guitar playing make her live performances spell-binding and often difficult to breathe. She talks about unrequited love, lost hope and death… in the prettiest way imaginable.
Daughter is the musical work of Elena Tonra. Have a listen to her music, would you call her a singer/songwriter or indie folk? It's a tough call but I'm sure we can both agree that's bloody good. Growing up in a qiuet part of London in the 90's she spent her days listening to her parent’s vinyl collections and older brother’s rock CDs. She later discovered the beauty of acoustic and folk inspired music and started to create stories and poems which formed the skeletons of her songs. Wearing clothes that old people may well have died in, and a bowl-cut the Beatles would be proud of, Daughter tells tales of ghosts, drowning lovers and setting fire to her insides for fun. Daughter’s haunting voice and delicate guitar playing make her live performances spell-binding and often difficult to breathe. She talks about unrequited love, lost hope and death… in the prettiest way imaginable.
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65daysofstatic are a post-rock band from Sheffield. I first discovered them, as I'm sure many people did, through their 2004 single 'Retreat! Retreat!' I can't remember if it was through some compilation CD but I remember hearing it at several house parties and feeling the need to find out what it was, who it was by and if there was more where that come from. Well, the good news if you're a casual reader of this blog and you've never heard of 65daysofstatic before, is that as well as dipping your toes into the pool that is 'post-rock' by having a listen first, they've put their new EP online for you to have for free. So if you like what you hear, you've got no excuse to not have this in your music library. It's a selection of tracks from their previous releases and here's what the band has to say about it. We’ve got quite a concise festival season this year, since we’re busy in our 65 bunker, slowly but surely succumbing to agoraphobia and going deaf.Nevertheless, we are thrilled to be creeping up those bills, headlining a few festivals and making our debuts in countries we’ve been trying to get to for years now.To celebrate this, we’re giving away a free e.p – The Last Dance – that’s got a selection of tracks from our past few records. It’s nothing that you can’t find on the torrentz in about 30 seconds, but it’s got new artwork and it flows sensibly from start to finish like an iTunes shuffle doesn’t. This is a track from Kate Nash that was written and recorded in less than 24 hours. She's put it up as a free download whilst she's on tour. The video can be seen here. It's resulted in a polarized opinion from her fanbase, the official video on YouTube has 1,422 likes and 1,381 dislikes. Many liken it to the music to Riot Grrrl groups such as Bikini Kill and Le Tigre with a big lump of Hole thrown in. Have a listen and see what you make of it all. On her tumblr My Ignorant Youth, Kate has said that she'll leave this up as a free download whilst she's away on her current tour, so if you do like what you hear, get to it. Helen Arney is another discovery that I made at this year's Wychwood festival. She was part of the Robin Ince Science show and performed songs on her ukulele. Based in London, Helen is a comedian, geek songstress, one third of science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd, and half of the greatest comedy girlband you’ve never heard of, The Balconettes. Have a listen to the song below and I just know that you'll want it in your collection. Ah go on, click 'download'. I spent 6 days in a field in the pouring rain to bring you these tips! As regular readers of this blog will know, I'm a big Charli XCX fan so imagine how happy I was when I got back from the Wychwood festival, soaked from the rain, exhaughsted from five days of working and partying to get back home and find this waiting for my in my inbox! It's Charli overload! So much of her material all packed into one track...like an Epic Meal Time of her music. Here's the tracklisting: Beyond the Black Rainbow 1) Champagne Coast - Charli XCX / Blood Orange 2) How Can I – Charli XCX 3) Grins - Charli XCX / Blood Diamonds The Craft 4) So Far Away - Charli XCX / Paul White Kill Bill 5) Dreams Money Can Buy - Charli XCX / Drake / Jai Paul Cruel Intentions 6) Lock You Up – Charli XCX 7) Spoons – Charli XCX / Rudimental American Beauty 8) You're The One (Odd Future's The Internet remix feat. Mike G) - Charli XCX I've already featured Bleech on here, with the previous single 'Mondays', so I don't want to repeat myself too much but they are a great little band and definitely worth checking out. They're currently on tour in support of their new album 'Nude' which is released today! They played at the Sunflower Lounge in Birmingham a few nights ago so there's a local(ish) angle for you there, if you need one. The track up for grabs today is their take on David Bowie's 'Boy's Keep Swinging' from 1979. Out of all the tracks they could have picked, I think it's a pretty cool choice and that they've done it justice. What do you think? Especially for the Queens Diamond Jubilee, Little Boots has put together this mixtape, featuring Ladyhawke, TEED, Todd Terje, Scissor Sisters, Morgan Geist, and many many more. This is all good promo for the release of her new single 'Headphones' which is released tomorrow, so if you're reading this then it's available now. |
Making your music folder better, one song at a time.
_Pretty much everyday I seem to find some amazing exclusive tracks that
some awesome artists are giving away for free as a special one off
promotion. Today, it occured to me that instead of just downloading
them, maybe reposting them on facebook if they're special enough/someone I know and
then moving on, I should start a little music blog on here. Even if it
doesn't last forever, it's still a free song for you each day that it
does! I'd say the character of this blog is mostly electropop and singer/songwriter but I've got plans for mathcore, post-rock and glitch-hop. A lot of these tracks have a download limit of 100 so get in there on the quick. I'd also point out that a lot of the songs will need renaming once you've downloaded them so I'd do them one at a time. Archives
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